The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-29
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wrrH a watch case, the edges of which he
sharpened, prisoner in Chicago shaved on his
moustache, but failed in his CHIEF obJect that OF
hiding his identity.
A PRIVATE LETTER from Rome states that the
Pope intends to mark the occasion OF the Jubi-
lee by bestowing special honors on several
Americans distinguished for church services or
charity.
Two rival minstrel companies in Louisville are
spending their profits in advertising One OF the
companies has distributed the Autographs OF
one of its end men on horseback, dressed 10
perfection, and ignoring the salutes OF Gen'
Grant and the Prince of Wales,
A New HAVEN PREACHER called to account the
bicycle club of that town in recent sermon,
and member of the club is reported as saying
that the club will retaliate by electihg Cne
preacher an honorary member anu IHen CA
polling him by u unanimous vote.
BIDDING for the national political conventions
next year is becoming quite active. Boston is
said to have offered $4,000 that one of them he
held in the Hub, and now the alta, OF san
Francisco, says that that city doubles the East
ern bid, and besides guarantees quadrupie the
amount i'll pleasure.
In NASHVILLE, KY Saturday last, case IN
the Circuit Court of Mason county was decided
in which parties who have had possession of
CERTAIN Valuable plGCc vi ldln III 49,
years have been ousted The plaintiffs were
grandchildren of the original purchaser anu
heirs of Mary Hester McAlien
A TURTLE was recently Matched out in the
parlor of a Jersey City woman from an egg
which she brought home last summer as souv,
enir of a trip. At the time the egg was placeo
in tie card receiver, where it remained all dur
ing the process of Matching, which latter Is III
tributed to the heat OF the room.
A DOG in some unaccountabe manner gained
access to a cornice which extends around tie
county buildings in Chicago, last week, and
for four days, according to the account IN
local paper remained there unable to reach
place of safety and with rescue from the Dullo-
ing entirely cut off. Finally the animal was
shot.
AccoRp1Se to the Paris Morning Netos, there
is to be a test of the devotion of Poilerat, the
shoemaker and socialist orator, to the primer
pies he has professed. That paper says tnao
his fellow Socialists are about to call a meeting
to determine what shall be done with legacy
of SS0O0OOO bequeathed to Poillerat by
brother who died in America.
SOME TIME AGO Emily D. Wheeler and Laura
Wheeler erected a fifty-foot clock tower, with a
deep-toned bell, just opposite a hotel in Sharon,
Conn. Amy +. Cole, the proprietor OF the
hotel, has sued out an injunction against the
clock being allowed to strike the hours ON the
bell She says that it annoys her boarders, and
has driven some of them away.
AN aged farmer of East Sullivan, Me-, an
noyed by the depredations of bear, set a
spring gun for him. When he visited the gun
he found the bear there badly wounded. The
old man tried to kill it with an AK, but the bear
knocked him down, and was in fair way to XIII
him. when nelghbor arrived with gun and
killed the bear. The old man was mangled.
Two AND A HALF YEARS AGO family in Ply
mouth gave away their pet cat. She wouldn't
-, ba and dicannpQr red The
other day the children of her old mistress found
her three miles from town and carried her
home where at their bidding, she did the tricks
that they had taught her three years ago. She
seemed delighted to get back and purred
steadily for six hours.
MRs ELLA WHEELER WILCOX says that she
could never understand why the uncovering of
pretty arms and shoulders was any more i'm
modest than the uncovering of pretty face.
Decollette is from French word which means
Ito uncover the neck, but in her opinion 1t
does not signify any indecent display or the
person though it is frequently improperly used
in that sense by critics.
LAST SPRING Miss Lottie Temple of Heath,
Mass, young woman just past 21, leased a
large farm which she worked successfully,
making good crops. The other night party Of
her friends gave her a surprise husking bee, and
all her large crop of corn was well husked in a
little over two hours. Reports from other parts
of New England indicate revival of that excel
lent inStituUion-tne husKlng bee.
The DUKE OF EDINBURG. whose repeated acts
of rudeness to French officials have necessitated
the issue of special instructions concerning the
behavior to be adopted toward him when visit
ing French ports, has caused much unpleasant
comment at Trieste, by an act of dscourtesy
toward the United States consul, Mr.. Gilbert,
whose official visit on board his flagship he
omitted to acknowledge or to return.
w. II, WELLS, young man only % years old,
has just been placed in the Frankfort (Ky) peni-
Tertiary for u term of five years. He is an ex-
pert stenographer and telegraphist, and was
employed at one time by the Southern Express
Company. He stole 81 600 from the company
in order to go to st. Louis and meet a young
woman, whose acquaintance he had made in
Louisville, Ky. Wells states that he has not
been imprisoned under his real name as he did
not wish to bring disgrace upon his family,
which is one of the best he says in the country.
A SPECIAL from Owensboro, KY, of Saturday
says: Miss Fannie Moore, daughter of Mr..
Levi Moore, one of the most respected citizens
of the county, and DIR. j. D. Coffman, promi-
nent physician, were to have been married
Yesterday The doctor failed to come to time,
and Miss Moore procured pistol, and, going to
his residence, opened fire on him. She fred two
shots. neither of which took effect, when he
seized the pistol and threw it away. He then
mounted his horse and rode away, and has not
been heard of since. Miss Moore returned to
THE question has often been raised what pro-
portion of balls exchanged by hostile armies,
will hit their marks and kill Difficult as it is to
solve it exactly, some approximation may be
arrived at from the number of balls-estimated
at 20 900, OO0-which were fired by the Germans
in the war of 1901. The French army lost in
the dead and wounded, about 10000 men. Ac-
cording to this only one ball out of 43 fired hit
its man, and assuming that on an average one
man out of seven hit actually killed, it
would seem that only one rifle ball in S5S proved
fatal If it is further considered that the num-
Der of men wounded and killed by the guns of
the artillery are included in the above estimate
it may safely be said that not over one rifle ball
in thousand fired proved to be fatal
AN ALTOGETHER INCoRRIGlBLE THIEF is being
looked after by the Washington authorities He
is So years of age, and on being released from
the Baltimore penitentiary after serving out a
term for horse stealing, was taken to Washing
ton to stand trial for a similar otfense. At the
capital he aroused the sympathy of the court
by stating that he intended to reform and
wanted to go to his birth place in Texas, and
spend the remaining days Of his life with his six
sons, who, he represented were in business
there. He was given his freedom, and also q
ticket to New Orleans. 1t now turns out that
he sold the ticket, and after knocking about for
a while, brought mp at horse bazaar, where he
again embraced an opportunity to steal n horse
The last heard Of him was that he sold the ami
NAL for $50 and promissory note for $50.
A SAN FRANCISCO NEWSPAPER offered $500 to
the one who would correctly guess the number
of types in a jar, exhibited in the exposition
there. Two men were successful naming the
correct number-S4, 300 How they came to hit
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